A cell is fundamentally a container—a vessel that encapsulates life at the most basic level. Many biologists believe ...

A recent special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of the biggest mysteries in science: how life first began ...

Sahana Subramanyam was a participant in SFI's 2018 summer Research Experience for Undergraduates — now called the Undergraduate Complexity Research program. In this essay, she reflects on how the ...

Convening a global cohort of curious, driven, generous, and brilliant people from across a vast range of expertise and career stages sets the possibility space for SFI’s Complex Systems Summer School, ...

Complexity Science provides a crucial lens for considering how AI will impact human systems. In this session, SFI External Professor Scott Page* will present some ideas from a current project with Lu ...

This working group brings together scholars from diverse fields—neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and AI—who are all investigating the broad notion of “intelligence”, whether in biological systems ...

In the 1980s and ’90s, SFI played laboratory to a promising new method known as agent-based modeling. Instead of relying on averages and unrealistic mathematical assumptions, these models were built ...

Artificial-intelligence systems have made remarkable progress in recent years, but they still struggle with the kind of flexible, relational reasoning that comes naturally to humans. Program ...

Processual archaeologists began employing some of the vocabulary now current in complexity studies in the 1960s and 1970s, inspired by cybernetics, general systems theory, and contemporary ...

The program is held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. During the work week UCR studetns conduct their research at the Santa Fe Institute's (SFI) Cowan Campus. Students live at the Institute of American ...